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Vinton, Virginia (2007) – An outbreak of twitching, headaches and dizziness affected at least nine girls and one teacher at William Byrd High School. The episode lasted for months amid other local public health scares. [51] Tanzania (2008) – In September 2008, 20 girls at a school in Tabora started fainting while taking their final year ...
On the 42nd anniversary of the incident at "the Fainting Field", a BBC local radio reporter created a podcast recounting the events, and investigating what could have happened by consulting a forensic science lecturer from Nottingham Trent University, who hypothesised that different cleaning products could have been used in a temporary toilet ...
A girl fainting and collapsing into the arms of a woman, in the background is a similar scene of a fainting man. Engraving by W. Sedgwick after E. Penny. Wellcome Images Keywords: William Sedgwick; Edward Penny
The younger girls proved more susceptible, but disturbance was more severe and lasted longer in the older girls. It was considered that the epidemic was hysterical, that a previous polio epidemic had rendered the population emotionally vulnerable, and that a three-hour parade, producing 20 faints on the day before the first outbreak, had been ...
Military sexual trauma is used by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and defined in federal law [2] as "psychological trauma, which in the judgment of a VA mental health professional, resulted from a physical assault of a sexual nature, battery of a sexual nature, or sexual harassment which occurred while the Veteran was serving on active duty, active duty for training, or ...
"The Cutting Scene, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony" by George Catlin, circa 1832. Body suspension has historically been practiced by different cultures around the world. The Thaipusam festival, celebrated by the Tamil Hindu community on the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai (January/February), features body suspension. [3]
Stendhal syndrome, Stendhal's syndrome or Florence syndrome is a psychosomatic condition involving rapid heartbeat, fainting, confusion, and even hallucinations, [1] allegedly occurring when individuals become exposed to objects, artworks, or phenomena of great beauty.
The Ivy League nude posture photos were taken in the 1940s through the 1970s of all incoming freshmen at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania (which are members of the Ivy League) and Seven Sisters colleges (as well as Swarthmore), ostensibly to gauge the rate and severity of rickets, scoliosis, and lordosis in the population.